{"id":12559,"date":"2017-06-01T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:42:03","slug":"stockholm-marathon-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=12559","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm Marathon Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So… I printed out the kilometer by kilometer course overview for Saturday’s race. And as I’m sitting here waiting to board my connecting flight I read through it.<\/p>\n

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It sounds beautiful and fun… and to this good ol’ boy from the USA it also sounds unpronounceable. There’s a reason the Swedish Chef gibberish is our stereotype of the Scandinavian languages…<\/p>\n

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Heres a list of the first five\u00a0k’s… just to give your eyes\u00a0an earful…<\/p>\n

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  1. Liding\u00f6v\u00e4gen \u2013 Valhallav\u00e4gen<\/li>\n
  2. Valhallav\u00e4gen \u2013 Oxenstiernsgatan<\/li>\n
  3. Oxenstiernsgatan \u2013 Strandv\u00e4gen<\/li>\n
  4. Strandv\u00e4gen \u2013 Norrmalmstorg<\/li>\n
  5. Norrmalmstorg \u2013 Skeppsbron<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Try as I might to pronounce those names to locals, I suspect in the end I’ll sound like this:<\/p>\n

    https:\/\/youtu.be\/iv4htIk8tOU<\/p>\n

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    Still, I’ll probably be a better ambassador than some of our elected officials. \u00a0Zing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So… I printed out the kilometer by kilometer course overview for Saturday’s race. And as I’m sitting here waiting to board my connecting flight I read through it. It sounds beautiful and fun… and to this good ol’ boy from the USA it also sounds unpronounceable. There’s a reason the Swedish Chef gibberish is our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}